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R 💚s were 🔥 w/n 👤: Forming Disciples
in the Digital Age
👤
#HyperlinkedChurch
HELLO!👈 I am Jonathan F. SullivanI’m here because I’m passionate about evangelization and catechesis in the digital ageYou can find me at @sullijo
Who is in the room today?
HERE’S WHAT WE’LL BE DOING TODAY 1.Defining the Digital Culture2.Mass & Lunch3.Visioning the Hyperlinked
Church4.Becoming a “Human and
Hyperlinked” Church
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#HyperlinkedChurchUse this hashtag to follow along
online!
Culture (n): totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.”(American Heritage College Dictionary, third edition)
Does the “digital culture” count as a culture?
Beha
vior
s▸Carrying mobile devices with us
▸Receiving and responding to notifications
▸Texting▸Sharing (status updates, cat pictures, 😋)
▸Curation
▸Information Wants to be Free
▸Cult of the New▸Emphasis on Participation▸All Problems are Solvable▸Grow is GoodBe
liefs
Inst
itut
ion
s▸Wikipedia▸Internet Archive (archive.org)
▸Electronic Frontier Foundation
Characteristics of the Digital Culture
Binary
Image by imelenchon via morguefile.com.
Excarnational
Image by HyacintheLuynes under a CC-By-SA license..
Asynchronous
Image by Ryan McGuire (gratisography.com).
Distributed/Nongeographic
Image by Victorgrigas under a CC-By-SA license..
Disintermediated
Image from Cars (2006); directed by John Lasseter.
Open/Free
Image by Eliot Peper via unsplash.com.
Hackable
Image by Ilya Pavlov via unsplash.com.
The Digital Self(ie)
The Idealized Self
Image by Tiko Giorgadze via unsplash.com.
Connected
Image by Jason Nicholls via Flickr under a CC-By-NC license.
Multi-Platform
Image by Abri Tuzcu via unsplash.com.
Atomistic
Image by Sanwal Deen via unsplash.com.
What is one insight or new idea you’ve
gained?
Mass & Lunch
“Although social media has been around for less than 10 years, it doesn’t have the makings of a fad. We’re being told that it is causing as fundamental a shift in communication patterns and behavior as the printing press did 500 years ago. And I don’t think I have to remind you of what happened when the Catholic Church was slow to adapt to that new technology.”
:: Bishop Ron Herzog, USCCB Address (2010)
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THE HYPERLINKis an epoch-defining inventionon par with the wheel and electric light bulb
Visioning the Hyperlinked Church
“The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of the pastor and the community. While certainly not the only institution which evangelizes, if the parish proves capable of self-renewal and constant adaptivity, it continues to be ‘the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters’.
:: Evangelii Gaudium, no. 28
Image by JeffyBruno; released under a CC-By-SA
license.
Recognizes changing nature of relationship with parishioners
Image by Stefan Kunze via unsplash.com.
Engages in conversations using human language
Image by Greg Raines via unsplash.com.
Seeks to “link” parishioners
Image by Josh Applegate via unsplash.com.
Creates and shares resources
Image by Alice Achterhof via unsplash.com.
Exercises appropriate transparency
Image by Joao Silas via unsplash.com.
Break
“Nine tenths of the news, as printed in the papers, is pseudo-news... Some days ten tenths. The ritual morning trance, in which one scans columns of newsprint, creates a peculiar form of generalized pseudo-attention to a pseudo-reality. This experience is taken seriously.”
:: Thomas Merton
“My main strategy for remaining hopeful is staying as human as possible and operating on the human scale as much as possible... The more you do at a human scale — and I mean a human scale directly with other people, not just Skyping with other people, but really there in person — the more likely you are to be able to transform the landscape so it no longer favors just corporations and other abstract entities but you and your loved ones and your community.”
:: Douglas RushkoffImage by Paul May; released under a CC-By license.
Based on what we know about the digital culture, how can we
be a human & hyperlinked Church?
Q&A&C
A Final Thought
Thank you!
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